Epileptic seizures in intracerebral hemorrhage: a clinical and prognostic study of 55 cases.

L Cervoni, M Artico, M Salvati, R Bristot, C Franco, R Delfini
Author Information
  1. L Cervoni: Department of Neurological Sciences, Neurosurgery, Faculty of Pharmacy, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Abstract

Fifty-five cases of epileptic siezures associated with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage are reported. Seizures appeared as the first symptom in 23 patients, early (within two weeks after HI) in 18 and late (later than 2 weeks after HI) in 14. From the analysis of the observed cases we noticed that: 1) partial seizures were most frequent type (63%). These appeared mainly in cases with lobar hemorrhage above all; 2) development chronic epilepsy occurred frequently in the case of patients affected by late seizures. We compare our data with those reported in literature in order to highlight main factors which affect the onset and development of seizures associated with spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage.

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MeSH Term

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Child
Child, Preschool
Epilepsies, Partial
Epilepsy
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Postoperative Complications
Treatment Outcome

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